Word: sur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wild fusillade of police bullets. The newsreel crews rushed their precious films to Paris by air, hoping to catch the Bremen or Aquitania about to sail for the U. S. To their indescribable rage, the films were seized at Le Bourget Airport and at Cherbourg on orders of the Surété Nationale, because supposedly the pictures vividly illustrated lack of police protection for Alexander. After two days of wrangling, the French authorities finally released the films in time to catch the George Washington, due in Manhattan this week. Universal Newsreel barely overtook the steamer at sea, dropped...
Died. Frederick Delius, 71, blind English composer (Appalachia, A Mass of Life, Sea-Drift, Brigg Fair) ; in Grez-sur Loing. France. In 1897 a member of an audience shot at him for his satirical use of the Norwegian national anthem in the incidental music to Gunnar Heiberg's Folkaraadet. In 1929 Sir Thomas Beecham gave him England's long delayed recognition with a six-day Delius festival...
...parliamentary committees continued their respective investigations of the causes of the rioting on Feb. 6 and of the Stavisky scandal. In the room generally reserved for the committee on the army and handsomely decorated with battle pictures, sat the 44 members of the Commission d'enquête sur les événements du 6 Février et jours suivants, better known as "The Committee of the Bloody Days." Its chairman, Deputy Bonnevay of the Rhone, boasts a pair of the finest sidewhiskers in all France. He heard things last week to make them curl...
...died last year. The failure of advancing surgery to re duce this mortality rate prompted Dr. Urban Maes, able New Orleans appendectomist. chief of the department of surgery of Louisiana State University Medical Center, to search for explanations. His conclusions he last week presented in the American Journal of Sur gery*: "Categorically speaking, the mortality in appendicitis is not usually the mortality of appendicitis itself; it is usually the mortality of unwise treatment, the mortality of delay, and the mortality of the complications that follow upon and are induced by these two things." But for childhood and old age this...
...Chicago steamed out of San Pedro harbor one day last week, headed up the California coast to join the Navy Day ceremonies in San Francisco Bay. Off Point Sur, 110 mi. south of the Golden Gate, a dense fog closed around her. Suddenly just before the 8 o'clock morning watch was called, a large brown ship loomed out of the mists across her bow. The Chicago slackened speed, veered sharply to port. The brown ship scurried across her path, disappeared into the fog. Before the Chicago could swing her bow around again, a second ship, the British freighter...